Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
By the time Rooseveldt had exhausted all the possible wrong options Stalin had a big piece of the European pie. It appears that it was Roosevelt's bumbling that drove Winnie to drink.

Churchill said: ''There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!''
I suspect that Winne met the bottle long before Roosevelt entered the picture, and I have to wonder what realistic option Roosevelt had that would have kept Stalin out of Europe.

It wasn't the easiest of times to manage, and it's easy with hindsight to imagine things were simpler than they were.